Posted 3 years ago on May 1, 2012, 5:09 p.m. EST by 99rabbitholelane
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The world's economic situation is far worse than most people
believe. Even the strongest economies have accumulated huge
debts they cannot afford to pay. Riots and turmoil are happening
all over the globe. Governments the world over are unable to
sustain their societies as before.

It's not that most wealthy nations overnight became irresponsible
and adopted poor book keeping habits. These are symptoms of the
disease, not the disease. Capitalism has a terminal disease and is
doomed to die. The disease is called the computer age and high
technology. Each year that passes technology displaces human
labor. More and more humans are becoming obsolete resources and
are now burdens on their society. Computers, robotics, machines,etc.
These will continue to evolve and less and less humans will
contribute to capitalism. The use of machinery in the industrial age
replaced the human body, but always needed a human brain to
operate the equipment. In the computer age the human brain
is replaced by the computer. So neither the human body, nor
brain is needed to do the work. Less valuable and more plentiful workers
lead to lower wages and less consumers to fuel the system.
Consequently less taxes to cover govt expenses resulting in higher
debt. The world population will increase and the need for human
labor will greatly decrease.

Just look at the initial salvos computers in their infancy have lobbed at human labor. Factory robotics, Globalization, CAD machines, digital printing/photos, e-mail, ATM'S, self checkouts, online newspapers,software programs, online purchasing of everything from travel to merchandise, dvd rentals, when was the last time you spoke to a REAL person when calling a major corporation? etc,etc,etc. Productivity levels aren't soaring because the "American idol" generation is the greatest workforce ever. It's because utilizing computer technology has made them productive. What took 10 workers to do 30 years ago, only takes 7 or 8 workers today. These things have dealt a huge blow in lost jobs.
All this and the computer age is just taking it's baby steps.

Capitalism is an industrial age system that will never function in the
computer age. Imagine the unemployment new technology will bring
in the coming decades. Take some of the following few examples and add a few of your own.

3D printing allows endless kinds of solid objects to be printed instead of manufactured. Once perfected these machines will devastate factory jobs, transport logistics and associated ancillary jobs. Eventually this will replace even the lowest wage jobs in third world countries. Producing everything from garments to dinnerware.
Health care jobs will suffer. With DNA mapping of diseases, cures
for obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease are only a few decades
away. Robots or robotic body parts will be able to assist the infirmed
and elderly. All of this technology is great, but will result in much
less health care jobs.Invitro meat is a viable future food source that is showing advancements that will allow growing artificial meat from stem cells. Once perfected, huge jobs in ranching, slaughterhouses and transport will be lost. Over time slaughtering live animals for a food source will be thought inhumane and go the way of wearing fur coats.
"AI",Once artificial intelligence is achieved, it will eventually replace the most highly regarded human jobs. A human judge, surgeon, ceo,
professor, engineer, etc will pale in their ability to compete with a
computer. A machine that can think as much in a nano second as
da vinci, einstein, archimedes thought in their entire lives, will
dwarf all inept human competition.

All of that will take decades or generations to fully materialize.
Presently we are in dangerous times. A class war has begun, while
societies around the world crumble. The rich no longer need the poor
human resource. The poor no longer need the rich, whose reign is
only over a sinking ship. Unfortunately the rich own the govt, monetary system, media, legal system,etc and their actions recently are scary to say the least. Homeland security, citizens united, habeas corpus is a corpse, surveillance of citizens, drone aircraft to occupy U.S. airspace, the embracing of fascist behaviour, austerity programs aimed at the lower classes, the poor bailing out the rich and then beingleft holding the debt, the beating of citizens protesting against injustice, The U.S. military with bases in more than 70 sovereign nations!!! etc, etc, it's a NWO nightmare. The people's rights and our constitution have been desecrated and things will only get worse.

The only way to escape the worst is if the masses woke up.
Unfortunately that is highly unlikely as most people buy the lie.
I've been hoping for the success of #OWS since the Sep 17 start.
The only way for #OWS to have a sliver of a chance is if it
stops whining about every little problem. The public's attention span
is tiny and they're not going to listen when #OWS complains about
excessive jay walking tickets being issued in hoboken. The stakes are too high now and things are happening too fast. #OWS has to bring to light only a very, very few huge problems to have any chance.Historically great changes are on the horizon, most of which will be bad. Last century we saw Hitler, Stalin, Pol pot take power. The start of this new century is setting us up for more of their kind to rule.The question is: are the sleeping sheeple going to be able to
save us?